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1940 год, немецкие самолеты бомбят Лондон, в городе введено затемнение – удачное время для убийцы богатой пожилой дамы, чтобы буквально раствориться в темноте… Но кто этот убийца? Помешанный на мистике племянник? Родственница убитой, жившая в доме на правах компаньонки? Экономка, души не чаявшая в хозяйке? Или ее молодой квартирант с крайне загадочной биографией? Артур Крук начинает расследование……
Представитель древнего аристократического рода Хилари Билл-Тасман выкупает некогда утраченную фамильную усадьбу и собирается восстановить ее. При этом он нанимает в качестве слуг людей, однажды осужденных за убийство. Накануне Рождества Билл-Тасман устраивает пышный банкет, на который приглашает и супругу Родерика Аллейна, известную художницу Трой Аллейн. И в самый разгар торжества один из слуг пр…
Представитель древнего аристократического рода Хилари Билл-Тасман выкупает некогда утраченную фамильную усадьбу и собирается восстановить ее. При этом он нанимает в качестве слуг людей, однажды осужденных за убийство. Накануне Рождества Билл-Тасман устраивает пышный банкет, на который приглашает и супругу Родерика Аллейна, известную художницу Трой Аллейн. И в самый разгар торжества один из слуг пр…
После волнений, в одночасье охвативших города на всех континентах, мир изменился кардинальным образом. Новое цивилизационное устройство предоставляет каждому все, что душе угодно, – мужчины и женщины могут проводить время в непрерывных развлечениях, денно и нощно занимаясь сексом, участвуя в спортивных играх, балуясь легкими наркотиками… вот только человеческая жизнь ограничена 30 годами, и всяког…
An old-fashioned London Hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out…When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she’s looking for at Bertram’s Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly polished veneer.Yet, not even Miss Marple can foresee the violent chain of events set in motion when an eccent…
A man returns from the dead, and the body of a mysterious stranger is found in his room…A few weeks after marrying an attractive young widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the Cloade family fortune.Shortly afterwards, Hercule Poirot receives a visit from the dead man’s sister-in-law who…
Ngaio Marsh returns to her New Zealand roots to transplant the classic country house murder mystery to an upland sheep station on South Island – and produces one of her most exotic and intriguing novels.One summer evening in 1942 Flossie Rubrick, MP, one of the most formidable women in New Zealand, goes to her husband’s wool shed to rehearse a patriotic speech – and disappears.Three weeks later sh…
In the dead of night, a watchman is brutally attacked and with his dying breath cries out, “The Green Finger!” It is the latest in a series of robberies to take place that have left Scotland Yard mystified, and with no other choice but to call upon the expertise of Detective Paul Temple.Aided by the beautiful journalist Louise Harvey – affectionately known as Steve – the duo discover that this is …
As detective Paul Temple turns his hand to playwright, his leading lady Iris Archer pulls out shortly before the play is due to open and declares that she is heading for France.However, shortly after her disappearance Paul Temple receives a guest at his Scottish holiday home – none other than that of Iris Archer.The mystery deepens as Temple is asked by a young man to act as postmaster in deliveri…
The restoration of a bombed-out London theatre ends in violent death – and one of Marsh’s most vivid and dramatic novels.When the bombed-out Dolphin Theatre is given to Peregrine Jay by a mysterious wealthy patron, he is overjoyed. And when the mysterious oil millionaire also gives him a glove that belonged to Shakespeare, Peregrine displays it in the dockside theatre and writes a successful play …
A series of Ngaio Marsh editions concludes with an edition of her autobiography.With all the insight and style her readers came to expect of her, Ngaio Marsh's autobiography captures all the joys, fears and hopes of a spirited young woman growing up in Christchurch, and charts her theatre and writing careers both in New Zealand and the UK. This sanguine, unpretentious and revealing book has been a…
A classic Ngaio Marsh novel in which a game of darts in an English pub has gruesome consequences.At the Plume of Feathers in south Devon one midsummer evening, eight people are gathered together in the tap-room. They are in the habit of playing darts, but on this occasion an experiment takes the place of the usual game – a fatal experiment which calls for investigation.A distinguished painter, a c…
Agatha Christie’s audacious mystery thriller, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder. Helplessly, she stared out of her carriage window as a man remorselessly tightened his grip around a woman’s throat. The body crum…
A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane…From seat No.9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers. Over to his right sat a pretty young woman, clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead, in seat No.13, sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No.8, a detective writer was …
Agatha Christie’s exotic seaside mystery thriller, reissued with a striking cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.It was not unusual to find the beautiful bronzed body of the sun-loving Arlena Stuart stretched out on a beach, face down. Only, on this occasion, there was no sun… she had been strangled.Ever since Arlena’s arrival at the resort, Her…